Marinara Sauce

By vdub

This is raw and is made in the Vitamix

Ingredients

• 2 ripe tomato, chopped ( about 1/2 cup)
• 1 cup sundried tomatoes, soaked or oil packed
• 1 red bell pepper, chopped ( about 1/2 cup)
• 2 Tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 Tablespoon minced fresh basil or 1 tsp. dried
• 1 tsp. dried oregano
• 1/2 tsp. crushed garlic ( 1 clove)
• 1/4 tsp. + 1/8 tsp. salt
• Dash black pepper (optional)
• Dash cayenne ( *I omit this)

Preparation

Step 1

Put 1/2 of a tomato and one clove of garlic in VM and blend on high for about 20 seconds to really get that garlic pulverized.

Measure 1 cup of dried tomatoes in olive oil. Keep 2 Tbs. of the olive oil that came with the dried tomatoes. Rinse remaining tomatoes. Add dried tomatoes and the 2 Tbs. of their oil to the garlic-1/2 tomato mix in the VM container and processed this at around variable speed 4-5 until the mixture looks like thick, chunky tomato paste.

Add spices (I used fresh basil - and omitted the cayenne as you do) and process at variable 4-5 just long enough to get them mixed in.

Add the rest of the fresh tomato (one and a half) and the red bell pepper (seeded and cut into big chunks) and processed on variable speed 3 (so their would be "chunkiness").